Hey Blizzard, if you spoke to fans directly you wouldn't need to hire sockpuppets

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

Which are the smart customers they should let run Blizzard, the ones that have no serious invested interest in the game being successful?

[Koloi-moon-guard]

we used to have Blizzard staff that conversed with forum goers most of the time in fact Ghostcrawler himself would pop in from time to time and speak with the people despite his busy schedule and lets not forget everyones favorite blue space yak but now both are gone from Blizzard

remember when GC would personally have his Developers watercooler chats? they ended that right about the time he left and went to riot games

now the only “communication” we get from them is typically a pre screened Q&A with Watcher reading hand picked questions carefully chosen to avoid topics they wish to not address while Lore sits there nodding in agreement to anything Ion says like its the best thing for computer games since the invention of the internet

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

@Chitsa-korgath

@Fortuna-sentinels

And you shouldn’t spread conspiracy theories about “sockpuppets” just because people have the temerity to disagree with you, but here we are.

That’s a pretty wild allegation you just made there and you don’t have the evidence to back up that claim.

I’ve merely made a suggestion to save a company money before it potentially goes the same route many others have made (if it hasn’t already, which I stated in the OP I certainly couldn’t confirm ).

You’re the one making some claims without evidence here, buster.

Should I make a joke about tinfoil or something now?

That doesn’t seem like it’d be classy though…

Oh I don’t know - it was just a day or so ago that you “suggested” I was a Blizz employee posting here. Which would make this a sockpuppet. I’d say her comment has at least a shred of accuracy.

[Chitsa-korgath]

You could always quote me directly.

I believe I said you “struck me” as a Blizzard employee, but I asked for neither confirmation nor denial (never made an accusation), and continued on.

Care to pull up the exact quote since you brought it up?

EDIT: Beat you (to finding the quote in time, that is)!

@Chitsa-korgath

You strike me as a Blizzard employee.

Confirmation not necessary, nor am I stating it as fact.

[Kurddran-stormrage]

I don’t think at these sensitive snowflake times that Blizzard devs can crack a cold one and hang out with the player base because they might say something that might rub Kotaku or Polygon the wrong way which could lead to a nasty article along with money lost in the stock market.

I don’t really blame Blizzard for it.

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

@Chitsa-korgath

You could always quote me directly.

I believe I said you “struck me” as a Blizzard employee, but I asked for neither confirmation nor denial (never made an accusation), and continued on.

Care to pull up the exact quote since you brought it up?

I think that qualifies as a “suggestion”, quote marks included to indicate you didn’t come right out and say “You’re a sockpuppet Blizzard employee” and yes, you caveated it well enough to mostly duck any response that you were actually accusing me of being one. You’re good at playing with words, full credit where it’s due.

[Chitsa-korgath]

@Murgatroyd-lightbringer

You’re good at playing with words, full credit where it’s due.

Yo, respect.

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

@Chitsa-korgath

@Murgatroyd-lightbringer

You’re good at playing with words, full credit where it’s due.

Yo, respect.

Likewise

[Gahtsu-stonemaul]

Implying that Blizz cares enough about the community to bother. Toppest of keks.

[Chitsa-korgath]

@Gahtsu-stonemaul

Implying that Blizz cares enough about the community to bother.

I hope they start to properly care about community again.

It’s kind of inevitable.

When they do, everything else will fall into place…